Re: More Christchurch Brill 11 and St Kilda train station and light rail

Good stuff, Greg.

I got two lengths of California Street tram track from a street excavation
in San Francisco when I was last there and they are sitting in my mother's
backyard on 32nd & California Street and I can't find anyone who wants them.
It's great, tall, heavy channel rail. A tragedy they pulled that tram off.
It used to run past my place on a 24 hours service. You should have seen my
rental car dragging its tail end on the way home with that treasure in the
boot.

I take it you got the end off of 817. What happened to the rest of the car?


Cheers,

Bob Murphy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg King" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] More Christchurch Brill 11 and St Kilda train
station and light rail

Hi Bob,

As I trained a large proportion of the staff at the old Sth Melb depot on
the LRt lines, I'm right across them. I recall, whilst training, they were
putting in the "round-about' (now gone) at Grey and Fitzroy street, they

had

to cut back into the road way infront of the old station and put in a

curb,

during excavation, they exposed the VR 5'3" tram track (I actually think

it

is still under Grey street) and cut 4 lengths about 6ft in length, I

stopped

the tram over the top of it all and asked what they were going to do with
them, to cut this short, they are now, 4'81/2" apart under my 10ft of W5

817

in my back yard!!!

Cheers
Greg





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